List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Colombia explained

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Republic of Colombia is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Colombia, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Bogotá. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to Colombia.

List of heads of mission

Diplomats to Colombia

• 1825: John Potter Hamilton and Patrick Campbell Plenipotentiaries
• 1826–1829: Alexander Cockburn Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary^{[1] [2]}
  • 1829: James Henderson Consul general in Bogotá^[3]
• 1829–1831: William Turner Envoy Extraordinary^{[1] [2]}

Diplomats to New Granada

• 1831–1838: William Turner Envoy Extraordinary until 1837; then Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary^{[1] [2]}
• 1838–1842: William Pitt Adams Chargé d'Affaires^[2]
• 1841–1843: Robert Steward Chargé d'Affaires^{[1] [2]}
• 1843–1854: Daniel Florence O'Leary Chargé d'Affaires^{[1] [2]}

Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General to the United States of Colombia

• 1866–1873: Robert Bunch

Minister Resident and Consul-General to the United States of Colombia

• 1873–1878: Robert Bunch
• 1878–1881: Charles Edward Mansfield
• 1881–1882: Augustus Henry Mounsey
• 1882–1884: James Plaister Harriss-Gastrell
• Mar – Dec 1884: Frederick St John
• 1885–1892: William Dickson
• 1892–1897: George Jenner

Minister Resident and Consul-General to the Republic of Colombia

• Jul – Nov 1898: Sir Charles Euan-Smith
• 1898–1906: George Earle Welby
• 1906–1911: Francis William Stronge

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Colombia

• 1911–1919: Percy Wyndham
• 1919–1923: Lord Herbert Hervey
• 1923–1926: William Seeds
• 1926–1930: Edmund Monson
• 1930–1936: Spencer Dickson
• 1936–1941: Montague Paske-Smith
• 1941–1944: Thomas Snow

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Colombia

• 1944–1945: Thomas Snow
• 1945–1947: Philip Broadmead
• 1947–1953: Gilbert MacKereth
• 1953–1956: Keith Jopson
• 1956–1960: James Joint
• 1960–1964: Stanley Fordham
• 1964–1966: Sir Edgar Vaughan
• 1966–1970: William Young
• 1970–1973: Thomas Rogers
• 1973–1977: Geoffrey Crossley
• 1987–1990: Richard Neilson
• 1990–1994: Sir Keith Morris
• 1994–1998: Leycester Coltman
• 1998–2001: Jeremy Thorp
• 2001–2004: Sir Thomas Duggin
• 2004–2008: Haydon Warren-Gash
• 2008–2012: John Dew
• 2012–2015: Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby^[4]

• 2015–2019: Peter Tibber^[5]
• 2019–: Colin Martin-Reynolds^[6]

External links

• UK and Colombia, gov.uk

Notes and References

1. J. Haydn, Book of Dignities (1851), 87.
2. S. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789–1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934).
3. Book: Paquette, Gabriel . Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and Its Atlantic Colonies, C. 1750-1830 . Ashgate . Empires and the making of the modern world, 1650-2000 . 2009 . 978-0-7546-6425-3 . 357.
4. Web site: Her Majesty's Ambassador, Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby . 2012-05-25 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20130125062143/http://ukincolombia.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/ourembassy/our-ambassador/ . 25 January 2013 .
5. https://www.gov.uk/government/people/peter-tibber Peter Tibber, British Ambassador to Colombia
6. Web site: British Ambassador to Colombia Colin Martin-Reynolds CMG .